Across the nation.

Dry Western Land Falls Victim To Wildfires

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH — Firefighters battled wildfires Wednesday in six western states, including a Utah blaze that ravaged 130,000 acres of land covered with parched brush and trees.

With tinder-dry conditions in much of the West, 16 large fires were burning in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming, said the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho. More than 5,900 firefighters were battling the blazes, which charred more than 235,000 acres.

Authorities estimated it would take another nine days to bring the blaze in central Utah under control.

Meanwhile, the threat to Reno suburbs from a 6,000-acre wildfire in western Nevada receded as the flames headed south into the Mt. Rose wilderness area.